Eric Redd
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| Birth name | Eric Redd |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Genres | Rock, pop rock, dance, EDM, house, R&B, soul |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, choreographer |
| Instruments | Vocalist |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Labels | Jive Records, Carrillo music |
| Website | ericredd |
Eric Redd is an American recording artist, songwriter and dancer. He has parlayed his initial success as a teen-age regular on Soul Train into a four-decade career that includes the 2017 club hit, "Right Time" and the 2010 club hit "Breathe". Eric Redd is also a lead vocalist with the classic rock band, California Transit Authority (CTA).
By the time he was 16, Redd had become a regular on Soul Train, sharing the stage with people such as Rosie Perez, Miki Howard and some of the future members of Shalamar. Redd and his partner, Cheryl Song, were two of the show’s most popular dancers. Because of this popularity, they were invited to compete in the American Bandstand dance contest. Since the two programs rarely co-mingled dancers, this was a singular honor.
After graduating high school, Redd won a scholarship to the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied dance. Then, after turning down a position in The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s second company, he spent a year with the Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers before moving to Paris, where he joined Roland Petit’s Ballet de Marseilles.
After touring with the company for two years, he left to appear in the original German cast of Cats. During much of this time, he was known as "Erique" Redd, as there was already another Eric Redd in the European entertainers' union.
He next appeared in another Andrew Lloyd Webber production, the London production of Starlight Express. It was there, in 1991, that Redd turned increasingly to singing, landing a contract on Jive Records UK and releasing a club-friendly cover of Paul Simon’s "50 Ways to Leave a Lover." After two years with Jive Records, Redd, who realized the label was concentrating only on rap, decided to come back to California, where he wrote and recorded music for television, served as a music supervisor for Black Entertainment Television (BET)’s new programming department. He also performed, toured and recorded with artists such as k.d. lang, Coolio, Gail Ann Dorsey, Sara Lee (then of the B-52's) and Ani DiFranco. He was also a regular on All Star Workouts, a program that continues to be rerun on cable years after it was filmed.
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